UOC rejected the message of the dioceses of the Crimea in the ROC
In the legal Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate did not confirm the data of the Ukrainian TV channel " 1 1 ", showing the story Of the transition of the Russian Orthodox Church regarding the rights and property 2 of the dioceses of the Church in the Crimea. "The legal Department officially informs that this information does not correspond to reality ", - reported in the explanatory notes published on the Internet representation of the UOC. It also notes that the Holy Synod of the UOC " not made any decisions about changing the submission and transfer of property dioceses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ", located in the Crimea. UOC noted that the Simferopol and Feodosia diocese are members of the UOC and are directly subordinate to the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine, because meet the letter of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II of 1990, "On the independence and autonomy in their management of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church" and " regulations on the management of the UOC ". In the Department stressed that the documents referenced in the Ukrainian transmission, the Synod did not accept. The report also emphasizes that the creation story TV shows, no one asked in the UOC for providing information On the adoption of the statutes of the dioceses in the Crimea. The program with this story About the transition of the dioceses of the Crimea in the ROC, as reported by the RIA " Novosti ", was aired on the channel on Sunday, March 8, after which information about the change in the Crimean dioceses was distributed in other media. In the Crimea on March 16, held a referendum On the status of autonomy, more than 96% of participants were in favour of joining region in Russia. 21 March, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin signed the law On ratification of the agreement On joining of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia and signed a decree on the formation of the Crimean Federal district.